Casino Enterprise Management

The burning question is, with multi-games available, will players change their behavior to play longer on a single device instead of the very short time-between-devices pattern that they currently exhibit? Put simply, do players spend more time on multi-game machines?

VLTs will change the numbers in the Italian gaming market over the next three to five years, because this new gaming offer, even if strongly controlled by the gambling authority since its test phase, is much more flexible than any other Italian gaming product.

After a modest uptick last month, the AGEM Index retreated downward during the month of August, erasing the gains witnessed in the prior month of July. The composite score of 17 global gaming suppliers shrank 2.68 points, reaching a value of 87.89 by the close of August 2010.

It’s hard to believe that 20-plus years ago the vast majority of the cages in our industry were operating under a completely manual system. Manual markers, manual pit fills and credits, manual microfilming of the checks, manual table games openers and closers, and way too many other manual functions to mention. And even now there are many cage and credit functions that are still manual—and outdated. Cage automation has been somewhat slow, but every year at G2E and NIGA I see a much brighter light at the end of the tunnel.